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The site keeps edition metadata and source entries only. The classic Chinese translation (Cao Jinghua, first published 1931) and the English editions from 1935 onward remain protected or carry publisher copyright claims.
Red Classics · Edition Entry
The Iron Flood
Serafimovich's 1924 novella: during the civil war a scattered Red column, with its families, breaks across the Kuban steppe under Cossack attacks and pursuit, reforging itself into an 'iron flood.' The Russian original has been public domain since 2020 (author died 1949), but this is a bilingual Chinese-English site; the classic Chinese translation is Cao Jinghua's 1931 Sanxian Bookstore edition (translator died 1987, still in copyright) and the earliest English edition appeared only in 1935 (not pre-1929). Neither side can be lawfully imported, so this entry keeps edition notes and lawful reading links only.